.capetown

3,515 domains as of 19 Sep 2026

Domains
3,515
19 Sep 2026
30-day change
Signed in root
✔ Yes
DS record present
Type
Generic
ASCII
Registrar figures are for May 2026. ICANN publishes monthly registry reports about three months in arrears, and they are the only source that attributes domains to registrars — zone files do not contain registrar information. Methodology.

Registry details

From the IANA Root Zone Database and RDAP bootstrap.

Registry operator
ZA Central Registry NPC trading as ZA Central Registry
Technical backend
dns.net.za inferred group via ns suffix
Delegated
19 Jun 2014
Nameservers
coza1.dnsnode.net, ns2.dns.net.za, ns4.dns.net.za
RDAP
https://rdap.nic.capetown/rdap
Zone data
CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Of the 3,958 domains that came up for renewal between Jun 2025 and May 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate
75.69%
above .com/.net/.org
Renewed
2,996
in twelve months
Deleted
962
in twelve months

For comparison, the median new gTLD keeps 68.45% and .com, .net and .org together keep 73.23%.

Registrar share

individual · combined

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Related accreditations combined into corporate families, folding 2 of the 26 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Month May 2026
Tucows — 1,827 (50.46%)Diamatrix C.C. — 804 (22.2%)Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu — 231 (6.38%)Lexsynergy Limited — 200 (5.52%)DNS Africa Ltd — 151 (4.17%)Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd. — 88 (2.43%)MarkMonitor Inc. — 66 (1.82%)Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE — 60 (1.66%)IONOS SE — 37 (1.02%)NETIM SAS — 30 (0.83%)Other — 127 (3.51%)
3.62kreported May 2026
Share of .capetown by registrar
Tucows2 accreditations1,82750.46%
Diamatrix C.C.80422.2%
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu2316.38%
Lexsynergy Limited2005.52%
DNS Africa Ltd1514.17%
Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd.882.43%
MarkMonitor Inc.661.82%
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE601.66%
IONOS SE371.02%
NETIM SAS300.83%
Other16 more1273.51%

3,621 attributed to registrars in May 2026, against 3,515 in 19 Sep 2026’s zone — the zone is 106 smaller. The two are months apart, and a registry's own count also includes registrations that are not delegated in the zone. Why there are two clocks.

Domains by month, Jun 2014 – May 2026

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

From ICANN's monthly registry reports — the registry's own count, summed across registrars. This is the long history: it reaches back to delegation, where the daily series below can only start when this site began collecting zone files.

Jun 2014 – May 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All
01,4622,9244,3855,847Jun 2014May 2020May 2026
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MonthDomainsChangeRegistrarsNet addsDeletes
May 2026 3,621 ▼ -6 27 49 49
Apr 2026 3,627 ▼ -122 27 36 167
Mar 2026 3,749 ▼ -56 27 40 85
Feb 2026 3,805 ▼ -47 27 38 89
Jan 2026 3,852 ▼ -74 28 38 87
Dec 2025 3,926 ▼ -53 28 32 110

Showing the latest 6 of 144 months in this range. Show all 144.

Domains by day, 31 Aug 2026 – 19 Sep 2026

Source: Daily zone files

Counted from daily zone files. Names with at least one NS record or a DS record.

31 Aug 2026 – 19 Sep 2026
31 Aug 26 — first counted. Daily counting starts here, when the zone became available to us. The monthly chart above reaches further back, because those figures come from the registry rather than the zone.3,5123,5153,5173,5193,52231 Aug 269 Sep 2619 Sep 26
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  • 31 Aug 26, first counted — Daily counting starts here, when the zone became available to us. The monthly chart above reaches further back, because those figures come from the registry rather than the zone.

Daily change

Source: Daily zone files

Day-over-day difference of the zone's name list, over the same window as the chart above.

  • Added
  • Dropped
31 Aug 26 — first counted. Daily counting starts here, when the zone became available to us. The monthly chart above reaches further back, because those figures come from the registry rather than the zone.+50-531 Aug 2619 Sep 26
  • 31 Aug 26, first counted — Daily counting starts here, when the zone became available to us. The monthly chart above reaches further back, because those figures come from the registry rather than the zone.

Registrars

Registrar figures are for May 2026. ICANN publishes monthly registry reports about three months in arrears, and they are the only source that attributes domains to registrars — zone files do not contain registrar information. Methodology.
Registrar Domains Share Net adds Transfers in Deletes
COREhub, S.R.L. 1
0%
0 0 0
InterNetX GmbH 2
0.1%
0 0 0
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 2
0.1%
0 0 0
EuroDNS S.A. 2
0.1%
0 0 0
Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd 2
0.1%
0 0 0
Safenames Ltd 3
0.1%
0 0 0
Realtime Register B.V. 3
0.1%
0 0 0
Instra Corporation Pty Ltd. 3
0.1%
0 0 0
INWX GmbH 4
0.1%
0 0 0
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd. 4
0.1%
▲ +1 0 0
Marcaria International LLC 5
0.1%
0 0 0
united-domains GmbH 10
0.3%
0 0 0
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA 12
0.3%
0 0 0
1API GmbH 15
0.4%
0 0 0
101domain GRS Limited 18
0.5%
0 0 0
Gandi SAS 23
0.6%
▲ +1 0 1
Key-Systems, LLC 30
0.8%
▲ +2 0 0
NETIM SAS 30
0.8%
0 0 1
IONOS SE 37
1%
0 0 0
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE 60
1.7%
0 0 0
MarkMonitor Inc. 66
1.8%
0 0 0
Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd. 88
2.4%
▲ +2 0 4
DNS Africa Ltd 151
4.2%
▲ +21 0 11
Lexsynergy Limited 200
5.5%
▲ +2 0 2
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu 231
6.4%
▲ +1 0 3
Diamatrix C.C. 804
22.2%
▲ +9 0 5
Tucows Domains Inc. 1,815
50.1%
▲ +10 1 22

Registry activity

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Query volumes and EPP operations reported monthly by the registry. The only public signal of how much a TLD is actually resolved rather than merely registered.

Month Operational registrars DNS queries (UDP) RDAP queries Creates Deletes Renews Transfers approved Rejected
Jan 2018 0 0 0 93 0 391 1 2
Dec 2017 2 0 0 38 0 186 0 1
Nov 2017 0 0 0 80 0 486 2 0
Oct 2017 2 0 0 103 0 985 0 0
Sep 2017 0 0 0 77 0 204 1 0
Aug 2017 0 0 0 201 0 206 8 0
Jul 2017 0 0 0 92 0 124 2 0
Jun 2017 2 0 0 91 0 123 6 4
May 2017 2 0 0 98 0 155 2 0
Apr 2017 1 0 0 84 0 120 0 0
Mar 2017 0 0 0 104 0 161 0 0
Feb 2017 0 13.67M 0 92 0 152 2 0
Jan 2017 0 17.63M 0 122 0 322 4 0
Dec 2016 0 11.07M 0 82 0 167 8 0
Nov 2016 0 10.37M 0 161 0 448 21 3
Oct 2016 0 10.13M 0 109 0 1,140 32 3
Sep 2016 0 10.28M 0 131 0 110 28 15
Aug 2016 0 9.91M 0 106 0 141 3 0
Jul 2016 0 9.24M 0 104 0 69 7 0
Jun 2016 0 9.50M 0 135 0 74 6 0
May 2016 0 9.33M 0 113 0 78 6 0
Apr 2016 1 10.58M 0 109 0 94 7 0
Mar 2016 0 9.06M 0 109 0 115 9 3
Feb 2016 0 7.39M 0 95 0 125 18 0
Jan 2016 0 7.32M 0 83 0 315 6 0
Dec 2015 0 7.28M 0 86 0 166 0 0
Nov 2015 0 6.87M 0 100 0 533 38 0
Oct 2015 0 6.96M 0 131 0 1,306 11 1
Sep 2015 1 5.05M 0 232 0 45 2 2
Aug 2015 1 5.45M 0 102 0 15 4 0
Jul 2015 0 5.85M 0 113 0 10 6 0
Jun 2015 0 6.00M 0 119 0 9 0 0
May 2015 1 5.22M 0 122 0 14 0 0
Apr 2015 0 6.52M 0 157 0 4 0 0
Mar 2015 0 6.34M 0 181 0 12 0 0
Feb 2015 0 6.09M 0 356 0 5 0 0
Jan 2015 0 5.94M 0 411 0 3 0 0
Dec 2014 2 6.65M 0 262 0 6 0 0
Nov 2014 3 5.98M 0 2,776 0 13 0 0
Oct 2014 6 4.45M 0 356 0 0 0 0
Sep 2014 4 0 0 113 0 0 0 0
Aug 2014 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jul 2014 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jun 2014 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Data currency. Domain counts on this page are from zone files dated and refresh daily. Registrar figures are from ICANN's monthly registry reports for May 2026, which ICANN publishes about three months in arrears; zone files contain no registrar information, so no fresher source exists. Full detail on methodology and live pipeline status.